Some of those supposed Microsoft technicians calling to help you remove bugs from your computer are facing their own real-life glitch that'll cost millions to fix.

Following a Federal Trade Commission complaint, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered 28 tech-support scammers and their associated companies – mostly based in India -- to pay more than $5.1 million in fines. The default judgement also permanently bans the scammers from marketing security-related tech support in the United States.

I've been covering these issues for awhile now and unfortunately, even a suit such as this doesn't necessarily mean those calls from fraudsters claiming to be from Microsoft Windows, McAfee, Norton and Dell are likely to stop. For that to happen, we'd have to be talking about law-abiding individuals in the first place that would follow such a mandate.

Yet experts point out that based on these operators' past practices and the fact that they're based overseas, often they'll just assume a new business names and start all over again.

Still, experts say, suits like this may slow them down.

The FTC filed numerous complaints in September 2012 in its attack on the tech-support scammers. In two cases -- against PCCare247 and Virtual PC Solutions (which also operated under numerous other names) – operators agreed to pay back money they collected from citizens.

While it will take time to get money out of these companies, the FTC aims to refund some of the money to consumers.

"It's early to say yet, but that would be the goal," said Jay Mayfield, an FTC spokesman. "We still need to actually get the money, we're a little ways off from having a definitive sense of how any redress program would work in this case."

That said, consumers should file complaints with the FTC if they lost money in such tech-support scams.